Adebayor is currently on loan at Real Madrid from City until the end of the season.
“There is a huge difference between Mancini and Mourinho,” he told the News of the World.
“Jose has personality, character and he’s not afraid to talk to you, whoever you are.
“At City I didn’t exist. Mancini didn’t talk to me and people had forgotten about me.
“But then you hear Real Madrid want you and it lifted me immediately. I thought, ‘Okay, this means I am a good player’.”
“I needed the manager to help me become a better player, but he was always criticising me,” he said of Mancini.
“Mancini had no confidence in me at all. For him, whatever I did was wrong.
“I remember scoring a hat-trick but he said I should have scored more. I tried a few times to talk to him man to man, but he never explained why he didn’t like me.”
“Whenever Mancini asked our opinions and we gave them he still wouldn’t listen. He always thought he was right,” he continued.
“Carlos (Tevez) is the main man, the captain. He is the powerful man, the talisman. And if he is complaining that means there must be something wrong.
“We have some very strong characters at the club and some very powerful players – Micah Richards, Patrick Vieira, Nigel de Jong, Vincent Kompany and Gareth Barry, they are all tough.
“But the training wasn’t strict enough and not well organised.
“Sometimes we’d stop after 20 minutes and then those of us who were not in Mancini’s starting 11 would be made to stand on the side and watch for the next 45 minutes.
“I had never seen anything like it before in my life, not at Monaco, not at Arsenal and not here at Real Madrid.
“At those clubs you trained whether you played or not. But at City sometimes even the players who would be on the bench for the next game didn’t train.
“I started to think I was not a good footballer and the doubt was instilled. After that I was more than depressed, I was gone.
“Whenever I came to training I was in a bad mood, I didn’t want to train. My confidence was hit hard.
“At City I didn’t exist. Mancini didn’t talk to me and people had forgotten about me.
“I had a fantastic relationship with previous manager Mark Hughes, but Mancini had no confidence in me at all.
“Sometimes you see someone and you get the feeling that person doesn’t care. It can be the most beautiful lady in the world, but you just don’t like that person.
“And I think that was the relationship between Mancini and me.
“I guess I was not the type of player he wanted. He preferred Mario Balotelli and Edin Dzeko and I respect his decision.
“I was a hero in my first season at City, but then I found myself in a very difficult position. When those two strikers arrived I said to myself, ‘At least I will be in the squad’.
“I’m not saying I’m the best player in the world but, to be honest, their record on the pitch is not better than mine.
“But sometimes I wasn’t involved at all and that is when I told myself, ‘Something is wrong’.”
